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Published 2004
Staging the Orient fin de siècle popular visions

: 238p. Seiten : zahlreiche Illus : Text engl. und franz. : 9953740267

Bodies of modernity : figure and flesh in fin-de-siècle France /

: 240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-231) and index.

Published 2014
Monsters in Society: An Interdisciplinary Perspective /

: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9781848882973

Published 2010
After one hundred years : the 1910 exhibition "Meisterwerke muhammedanischer Kunst" reconsidered /

: The exhibition \'Meisterwerke muhammedanischer Kunst\' that took place in Munich in 1910 marked a turning point in the approach to Islamic Art. The show attempted to break free of Orientalism and exotic fantasies and, in doing so, set a new standard for the reception of Islamic art in Europe. Moreover, naming the Islamic artefacts masterpieces, it layed claim to bestow upon Islamic art "a place equal to that of other cultural periods". This book is the first comprehensive study on this path-breaking exhibition. It includes a wealth of unpublished material and numerous novel ideas on the subject and addresses the exhibition's historical context, organization, realization and display as well as its reception in the West and its later influence on the study of Islamic art.
: Outgrowth of a scholarly conference held in Munich on the 24th and 25th of October 2008 in the International Meeting Centre (IBZ) of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. : 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9789004191020 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2011
The Temple of Jerusale m from Moses to the Messiah : in honor of Professor Louis H. Feldman /

: The Temple of Jerusalem: From Moses to the Messiah brings together an interdisciplinary and broad-ranging international community of scholars to discuss aspects of the history and continued life of the Jerusalem Temple in Western culture, from biblical times to the present. This volume is the fruit of the inaugural conference of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, which convened in New York City on May 11-12, 2008 and honors Professor Louis H. Feldman, Abraham Wouk Family Professor of Classics and Literature at Yeshiva University. Feldman is the doyen of modern scholarship on Judaism in the Greco-Roman period, focusing on the writings of Flavius Josephus. A beloved mentor to generations of Yeshiva University students and of scholars across the globe, Professor Feldman has taught at YU since 1955. \'The articles are consistently of high quality. This book is highly recommended for any academic collection in Jewish studies.\' Jim Rosenbloom, Judaica Librarian, Brandeis University; President, Association of Jewish Libraries
: "This volume is the product of the inaugural conference of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies which took place on May 11-12, 2008"--Preface. : 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004214712 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2007
The great social laboratory : subjects of knowledge in colonial and postcolonial Egypt /

: xii, 328 pages ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-318) and index. : 0804755671
9780804755672

Published 2015
Modernism, Christianity and apocalypse /

: Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse stages an encounter between the fields of 'Modernism and Christianity' and 'Apocalypse Studies'. The modernist impulse to 'make it new', to transform and reform culture, is an incipiently apocalyptic one, poised between imaginative representations of an Old Era or civilization and the experimental promise of the New. Christianity figures in formative tension with the 'new', but its apocalyptic paradigms continued to impact modernist visions of cultural revitalization. In three sections tracing a rough chronology from the late nineteenth century fin de siècle, via interwar conflicts and the rise of 'political religions', to post-1945 anxieties such as the Bomb, this thematic is explored in nineteen far-ranging scholarly contributions, outlining a distinctive and fresh interdisciplinary field of study.
: 1 online resource (407 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. : 9789004282285 : 1877-3192 ;
1877-3192 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.